Brandon Hamber
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 177160 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brandon Hamber |
| PRENOMES | Brandon |
| SOBRENOME | Hamber |
| ASSINATURA | HAMBER B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1908-4040 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 201 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Peacebuilding, politicization, and youth work
While Northern Ireland is praised as a successful peace process with valuable lessons, peacebuilding is incomplete. The responsibility increasingly falls on young people to address the unfinished business of the past, despite questions of capacity and the complex political and social dynamics of today. This article examines youth sector peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, highlighting shifts in youth policy and the emergence of a dominant contact …
Beyond intragroup betrayal during intergroup relational peacebuilding
This article addresses a neglected human cost of relational peacebuilding, identified in an earlier article on ‘peace as betrayal’. The focus here is how relational peacebuilders can respond to painful accusations of betrayal by family-type group members evoked by working with the ‘other side’. Continuing to draw on the reflections of experienced peace practitioners from South Africa, the Israel-Palestine region and the conflict in and about Nort…
A Dance of Shadows and Fires
The legacy of mass atrocity—including colonialism, slavery or specific manifestations such as apartheid—continue long after their demise. Applying a temporal intergenerational lens adds complications. We argue that mass atrocity creates for subsequent generations a deep psychological rupture akin to witnessing past atrocities. This creates a moral liability in the present. Healing is a process dependent on the authenticity (evident in discourse a…
Peace as Betrayal
This article explores the micro-dynamics of intragroup betrayal and self-betrayal that can be evoked by relational peacebuilding between groups. The painful accusation of betrayal by close, family-type group members and internally feeling like a betrayer as a result of working with the ‘other side’ is presented as an underestimated human cost of relational peacebuilding. This understanding emerged from an international ‘Beyond Dehumanisation’ res…
Hidden barriers and divisive architecture
Whilst “spatiality” and “architecture” have become recognized as important dimensions of urban conflict, contemporary forms of power push our gaze toward symbolic landmarks such as Belfast’s “peace walls.” This paper uses Belfast as a case study to instead highlight the fundamental role occupied by “everyday” urban space and architecture. It reveals evidence of an undisclosed body of divisive architecture put in place through a confidential proce…
Documentation, Human Rights and Transitional Justice
The role of testimony and documentation is crucial to human rights work in transitional contexts. Such evidence is vital in societies seeking to deal with a past of human rights violations as well as for ongoing human rights campaigns. The documentation of past human rights violations can help with the prosecution of perpetrators, identification of victims for reparations programmes, and the planning of memorials. It can also contribute to the em…
Practice, Power and Inertia
Through the prism of Northern Ireland, this article explores the function of existing and proposed archives within societies emerging from conflict, and highlights their potential in adding complexity to understanding conflict and challenging dominant narratives. The article outlines how, despite progress since the Northern Ireland peace accord in 1998, efforts to deal with the past and human rights violations have been piecemeal and politically …
Healing and Change in the City of Gold
This volume offers radically new ways of thinking about precarious life in the city of Johannesburg. Using case studies as varied as Pentecostal and Zionist churches, brothels, shelters, political movements for change in Zimbabwe, ex-soldiers groups, counseling services and art projects, this volume grapples with the way its predominantly migrant residents navigate the opportunities, challenges, moral orders and relationships in this iconic and c…
There Is a Crack in Everything
Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding
Conflict museums, nostalgia, and dreaming of never again
Sites that mark atrocity span the globe including Villa Grimaldi in Chile, the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in eastern China, and Robben Island in South Africa. Generally such sites seek to have some form of social and individual impact. Typically they seek to educate the next generation and prevent future forms of atrocity by revealing the past. It is contended that an overly emotional focus on the narrati…
If They Don't Start Listening to Us, the Future Is Going to Look the Same as the Past
This article, based on empirical research from Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, explores how young people conceptualize reconciliation and examines the meaning this concept holds for them. Qualitative data are collected through one-to-one interviews with young people aged 16 to 18 living in Northern Ireland ( N = 15) and Bosnia and Herzegovina ( N = 15). Results indicate that young people's conceptualizations of reconciliation are lar…
Masculinity and Transition
The participation of women in social, political and economic life in South Africa since the transition to democracy in 1994 has been growing. However, gender equality has not been attained and violence against women remains extremely high. This article interrogates why this is the case by focusing on masculinity and particularly violent masculinities. Through presenting the findings of primary research with men and women in South Africa, the arti…
Utopian Dreams or Practical Possibilities? The Challenges of Evaluating the Impact of Memorialization in Societies in Transition
For countries rebuilding in the wake of violence and repression, memorials, museums and places of memory represent a critical terrain where the past is confronted and conflict can be addressed. Memorialization, however, has not always been as intentional and strategic as other transitional justice practices, and evaluation of its impact is limited. This article focuses on the work of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and an evalu…
Beyond Coexistence
Ambivalence and Closure
Transforming Societies after Political Violence
Masculinity and Transitional Justice
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on including women in transitional justice processes.Some scholars question whether transitional justice mechanisms take obstacles for women, such as ongoing domestic violence, into account.This article follows this line of inquiry using the prism of ongoing violence against women in South Africa.It focuses on masculinity, and questions the degree to which masculinity, and violent masculinities in p…
Forgiveness and reconciliation
“Amongst men, forgiveness can only mean: to give up vengeance, to keep quiet and do as if nothing happened, which means: to walk away by principle, while vengeance will always remain with the other and does not put an end to the relationship. ... Reconciliation, on the other hand, originates in the acceptance of what befalls us. ... Whoever reconciles with the other just accepts to carry on his shoulder the burden that, anyhow, weighs on the othe…
Flying Flags of Fear
As tension mounts during the build-up to the Orange marching season, which occurs each summer in Northern Ireland, the streets of many cities and towns are festooned with flags. The proliferation of Union Jacks, Irish Tricolours, Ulster flags and paramilitary banners adorning the streets symbolize loyalty and serve as sectarian markers of territory. In July 2002, however, something unusual happened: republicans started hoisting the Palestinian fl…
Discourses in Transition
This article employs data gathered in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa as part of a project entitled 'Re-Imagining Women's Security and Participation in Post-Conflict Societies'. It refl ects on three different 'imaginings' of security-the state security discourse, the human security discourse and a gendered security approach-with the aim of showing that security discourses are currently undergoing a process of transition which parallel…
Symbolic Closure through Memory, Reparation and Revenge in post-Conflict Societies
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1 has become the paradigmatic international model of how to ‘work through’ a violent past and in so doing, to ‘heal the nation’. Increasingly it is being argued that countries, which have undergone large-scale conflict such as Bosnia, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, need to set up similar truth commissions. A countrywide process of revealing and confirming past wrongs is said to facilitate …
Narrating Survival and Change in Guatemala and South Africa
Peace accords and international interventions have contributed to the suspension of armed conflict and the censuring of repressive regimes in many parts of the world. Some governments and their opposition parties have agreed to the establishment of commissions or other bodies designed to create historical records of the violations of human rights and foster conditions that facilitate reparatory and reconciliatory processes. This paper explores se…
Symbolic closure through memory,reparation and revenge in post-conflict societies
Countries going through democratic transition have to address how they will deal with the human rights crimes committed during the authoritarian era. In the context of amnesty for perpetrators, truth commissions have emerged as a standard institution to document the past. Increasingly,claims are made that truth commissions have beneficial psychological consequences, that is, that they facilitate 'catharsis', or 'heal the nation', or allow the nat…
Ere their Story Die
Symbolic closure through memory,reparation and revenge in post-conflict societies
Countries going through democratic transition have to address how they will deal with the human rights crimes committed during the authoritarian era. In the context of amnesty for perpetrators, truth commissions have emerged as a standard institution to document the past. Increasingly,claims are made that truth commissions have beneficial psychological consequences, that is, that they facilitate 'catharsis', or 'heal the nation', or allow the nat…
Narrating Survival and Change in Guatemala and South Africa
Peace accords and international interventions have contributed to the suspension of armed conflict and the censuring of repressive regimes in many parts of the world. Some governments and their opposition parties have agreed to the establishment of commissions or other bodies designed to create historical records of the violations of human rights and foster conditions that facilitate reparatory and reconciliatory processes. This paper explores se…
Utopian Dreams or Practical Possibilities? The Challenges of Evaluating the Impact of Memorialization in Societies in Transition
For countries rebuilding in the wake of violence and repression, memorials, museums and places of memory represent a critical terrain where the past is confronted and conflict can be addressed. Memorialization, however, has not always been as intentional and strategic as other transitional justice practices, and evaluation of its impact is limited. This article focuses on the work of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and an evalu…
Forgiveness and reconciliation
“Amongst men, forgiveness can only mean: to give up vengeance, to keep quiet and do as if nothing happened, which means: to walk away by principle, while vengeance will always remain with the other and does not put an end to the relationship. ... Reconciliation, on the other hand, originates in the acceptance of what befalls us. ... Whoever reconciles with the other just accepts to carry on his shoulder the burden that, anyhow, weighs on the othe…
Flying Flags of Fear
As tension mounts during the build-up to the Orange marching season, which occurs each summer in Northern Ireland, the streets of many cities and towns are festooned with flags. The proliferation of Union Jacks, Irish Tricolours, Ulster flags and paramilitary banners adorning the streets symbolize loyalty and serve as sectarian markers of territory. In July 2002, however, something unusual happened: republicans started hoisting the Palestinian fl…
Masculinity and Transitional Justice
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on including women in transitional justice processes.Some scholars question whether transitional justice mechanisms take obstacles for women, such as ongoing domestic violence, into account.This article follows this line of inquiry using the prism of ongoing violence against women in South Africa.It focuses on masculinity, and questions the degree to which masculinity, and violent masculinities in p…
Practice, Power and Inertia
Through the prism of Northern Ireland, this article explores the function of existing and proposed archives within societies emerging from conflict, and highlights their potential in adding complexity to understanding conflict and challenging dominant narratives. The article outlines how, despite progress since the Northern Ireland peace accord in 1998, efforts to deal with the past and human rights violations have been piecemeal and politically …
Conflict museums, nostalgia, and dreaming of never again
Sites that mark atrocity span the globe including Villa Grimaldi in Chile, the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in eastern China, and Robben Island in South Africa. Generally such sites seek to have some form of social and individual impact. Typically they seek to educate the next generation and prevent future forms of atrocity by revealing the past. It is contended that an overly emotional focus on the narrati…
Non‐governmental organisations and the truth and reconciliation commission
This article examines the relationship between Non‐Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Based mainly on interviews with NGO and TRC staff, the article outlines the various ways that NGOs participated in the development of the TRC legislation and engaged with TRC structures. The shape of this engagement was very uneven depending on the stage of the TRC process: the strongest input came at the point o…
Repairing the Irreparable
This paper explores the competing and often diverging psychological needs of the individual and the society with regards to making reparations for gross violations of human rights. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's mandate and policy recommendations with regards to reparations for survivors and families of victims of human rights abuses are outlined. Thereafter, some of the psychological benefits and double-binds of making r…
The Burdens of Truth
American Imago - Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 1998
There Is a Crack in Everything
Discourses in Transition
This article employs data gathered in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa as part of a project entitled 'Re-Imagining Women's Security and Participation in Post-Conflict Societies'. It refl ects on three different 'imaginings' of security-the state security discourse, the human security discourse and a gendered security approach-with the aim of showing that security discourses are currently undergoing a process of transition which parallel…
Hidden barriers and divisive architecture
Whilst “spatiality” and “architecture” have become recognized as important dimensions of urban conflict, contemporary forms of power push our gaze toward symbolic landmarks such as Belfast’s “peace walls.” This paper uses Belfast as a case study to instead highlight the fundamental role occupied by “everyday” urban space and architecture. It reveals evidence of an undisclosed body of divisive architecture put in place through a confidential proce…
Documentation, Human Rights and Transitional Justice
The role of testimony and documentation is crucial to human rights work in transitional contexts. Such evidence is vital in societies seeking to deal with a past of human rights violations as well as for ongoing human rights campaigns. The documentation of past human rights violations can help with the prosecution of perpetrators, identification of victims for reparations programmes, and the planning of memorials. It can also contribute to the em…
Masculinity and Transition
The participation of women in social, political and economic life in South Africa since the transition to democracy in 1994 has been growing. However, gender equality has not been attained and violence against women remains extremely high. This article interrogates why this is the case by focusing on masculinity and particularly violent masculinities. Through presenting the findings of primary research with men and women in South Africa, the arti…
If They Don't Start Listening to Us, the Future Is Going to Look the Same as the Past
This article, based on empirical research from Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, explores how young people conceptualize reconciliation and examines the meaning this concept holds for them. Qualitative data are collected through one-to-one interviews with young people aged 16 to 18 living in Northern Ireland ( N = 15) and Bosnia and Herzegovina ( N = 15). Results indicate that young people's conceptualizations of reconciliation are lar…
Between the Shark Tank and the Deep Blue Sea
We trace the history of the Durban Aquarium from its founding to the present. With reference to individuals such as Kelpie the dolphin ( Stenella euphrosyne), Sally the sawfish ( Pristis pectinatus), ORI II the penguin ( Spheniscus demersus) and Ballard the curator ( Homo sapiens), we delineate mechanisms such as visibility, accelerated turnover, transgression, consumption of spectacle, and the predation taboo which work to shape the dynamic tens…
The Burdens of Truth
American Imago - Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 1998
Non‐governmental organisations and the truth and reconciliation commission
This article examines the relationship between Non‐Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Based mainly on interviews with NGO and TRC staff, the article outlines the various ways that NGOs participated in the development of the TRC legislation and engaged with TRC structures. The shape of this engagement was very uneven depending on the stage of the TRC process: the strongest input came at the point o…
Repairing the Irreparable
This paper explores the competing and often diverging psychological needs of the individual and the society with regards to making reparations for gross violations of human rights. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's mandate and policy recommendations with regards to reparations for survivors and families of victims of human rights abuses are outlined. Thereafter, some of the psychological benefits and double-binds of making r…
Symbolic closure through memory,reparation and revenge in post-conflict societies
Countries going through democratic transition have to address how they will deal with the human rights crimes committed during the authoritarian era. In the context of amnesty for perpetrators, truth commissions have emerged as a standard institution to document the past. Increasingly,claims are made that truth commissions have beneficial psychological consequences, that is, that they facilitate 'catharsis', or 'heal the nation', or allow the nat…
Ere their Story Die
Symbolic Closure through Memory, Reparation and Revenge in post-Conflict Societies
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1 has become the paradigmatic international model of how to ‘work through’ a violent past and in so doing, to ‘heal the nation’. Increasingly it is being argued that countries, which have undergone large-scale conflict such as Bosnia, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, need to set up similar truth commissions. A countrywide process of revealing and confirming past wrongs is said to facilitate …
Narrating Survival and Change in Guatemala and South Africa
Peace accords and international interventions have contributed to the suspension of armed conflict and the censuring of repressive regimes in many parts of the world. Some governments and their opposition parties have agreed to the establishment of commissions or other bodies designed to create historical records of the violations of human rights and foster conditions that facilitate reparatory and reconciliatory processes. This paper explores se…
Flying Flags of Fear
As tension mounts during the build-up to the Orange marching season, which occurs each summer in Northern Ireland, the streets of many cities and towns are festooned with flags. The proliferation of Union Jacks, Irish Tricolours, Ulster flags and paramilitary banners adorning the streets symbolize loyalty and serve as sectarian markers of territory. In July 2002, however, something unusual happened: republicans started hoisting the Palestinian fl…
Discourses in Transition
This article employs data gathered in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa as part of a project entitled 'Re-Imagining Women's Security and Participation in Post-Conflict Societies'. It refl ects on three different 'imaginings' of security-the state security discourse, the human security discourse and a gendered security approach-with the aim of showing that security discourses are currently undergoing a process of transition which parallel…
Masculinity and Transitional Justice
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on including women in transitional justice processes.Some scholars question whether transitional justice mechanisms take obstacles for women, such as ongoing domestic violence, into account.This article follows this line of inquiry using the prism of ongoing violence against women in South Africa.It focuses on masculinity, and questions the degree to which masculinity, and violent masculinities in p…
Forgiveness and reconciliation
“Amongst men, forgiveness can only mean: to give up vengeance, to keep quiet and do as if nothing happened, which means: to walk away by principle, while vengeance will always remain with the other and does not put an end to the relationship. ... Reconciliation, on the other hand, originates in the acceptance of what befalls us. ... Whoever reconciles with the other just accepts to carry on his shoulder the burden that, anyhow, weighs on the othe…
Beyond Coexistence
Ambivalence and Closure
Transforming Societies after Political Violence
Masculinity and Transition
The participation of women in social, political and economic life in South Africa since the transition to democracy in 1994 has been growing. However, gender equality has not been attained and violence against women remains extremely high. This article interrogates why this is the case by focusing on masculinity and particularly violent masculinities. Through presenting the findings of primary research with men and women in South Africa, the arti…
Utopian Dreams or Practical Possibilities? The Challenges of Evaluating the Impact of Memorialization in Societies in Transition
For countries rebuilding in the wake of violence and repression, memorials, museums and places of memory represent a critical terrain where the past is confronted and conflict can be addressed. Memorialization, however, has not always been as intentional and strategic as other transitional justice practices, and evaluation of its impact is limited. This article focuses on the work of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and an evalu…
If They Don't Start Listening to Us, the Future Is Going to Look the Same as the Past
This article, based on empirical research from Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, explores how young people conceptualize reconciliation and examines the meaning this concept holds for them. Qualitative data are collected through one-to-one interviews with young people aged 16 to 18 living in Northern Ireland ( N = 15) and Bosnia and Herzegovina ( N = 15). Results indicate that young people's conceptualizations of reconciliation are lar…
Conflict museums, nostalgia, and dreaming of never again
Sites that mark atrocity span the globe including Villa Grimaldi in Chile, the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in eastern China, and Robben Island in South Africa. Generally such sites seek to have some form of social and individual impact. Typically they seek to educate the next generation and prevent future forms of atrocity by revealing the past. It is contended that an overly emotional focus on the narrati…
Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding
Healing and Change in the City of Gold
This volume offers radically new ways of thinking about precarious life in the city of Johannesburg. Using case studies as varied as Pentecostal and Zionist churches, brothels, shelters, political movements for change in Zimbabwe, ex-soldiers groups, counseling services and art projects, this volume grapples with the way its predominantly migrant residents navigate the opportunities, challenges, moral orders and relationships in this iconic and c…
There Is a Crack in Everything
Documentation, Human Rights and Transitional Justice
The role of testimony and documentation is crucial to human rights work in transitional contexts. Such evidence is vital in societies seeking to deal with a past of human rights violations as well as for ongoing human rights campaigns. The documentation of past human rights violations can help with the prosecution of perpetrators, identification of victims for reparations programmes, and the planning of memorials. It can also contribute to the em…
Practice, Power and Inertia
Through the prism of Northern Ireland, this article explores the function of existing and proposed archives within societies emerging from conflict, and highlights their potential in adding complexity to understanding conflict and challenging dominant narratives. The article outlines how, despite progress since the Northern Ireland peace accord in 1998, efforts to deal with the past and human rights violations have been piecemeal and politically …
A Dance of Shadows and Fires
The legacy of mass atrocity—including colonialism, slavery or specific manifestations such as apartheid—continue long after their demise. Applying a temporal intergenerational lens adds complications. We argue that mass atrocity creates for subsequent generations a deep psychological rupture akin to witnessing past atrocities. This creates a moral liability in the present. Healing is a process dependent on the authenticity (evident in discourse a…
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